Policies

Email/Acceptable Use

Compupol provides "out of the box" written policies on using computers on a variety of topics. You can get two for free, but the cost is $9.95 per policy. Think about the time savings!

IT4U from PASA has links to sample email use policies for nonprofit organizations. The Education Foundation provides sample Internet Use and Email Use policies. If you want additional examples, visit Armadillo Collection of Acceptable Use Policies although for the most part are K-12/school examples.

Privacy

A good model for a web site privacy statement can be found at on the Heritage Forests Campaign site.

Copyright & Computer Ethics

From Now On's Internet Use Policy Articles and the article Keeping It Legal by Jamie McKenzie offer good advice on these issues.

Computer Ethics is a ThinkQuest site developed by students for students and includes an extensive list of resources on copyright and other ethics issues.

Ethics, Equity, and Social Issues: An online module for educators developed by Edweb at San Diego State University.

 

 

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